On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Amaya wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> At work, we are making custom Debian packages and we need a special versioning
> system so that apt does not try to replace our package with a newer upstream
> one.
>
> I would like to know if there's a standard way to proceed, apart from setting
> the debian version to customX, which is good, but doesn not deal with the fact
> that dpkg will try to replace the package with a newer upstream one.
You could use an epoch.
Julian
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